If Music Could Talk

Marky Dread wrote: ↑

22 Apr 2024, 3:39pm

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22 Apr 2024, 3:36pm

Whiney Houston > Phil Collins > Ed Sheeran

Controversial

Whiney Houston > Phil Collins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOIjcUwiuso Sort of a classic early 80s story here, The Kinks have their biggest US hit mostly on the heels of a quality (Julien Temple directed) music video and MTV (of course, also a great song, but they have a lot of those). Also, sort of ironic that this very Engl...

PJ Harvey - The Wheel
The House of Love - Wheels
Belle & Sebastian - Dog on Wheels
Jens Lekman (feat. Tracey Thorn) - Hot Wire the Ferris Wheel
Grandmaster Flash - The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On the Wheels of Steel

Fun topic. 1977/78 - Joe to Mick (presumably), discussing 1-2 Crush on You, “let’s just go with the normal spelling of ‘come’ here”. 1981 - One More Time and Somebody Got Murdered/Police on My Back replace The Call Up and Hitsville as the second and third singles on S! 1981 - live album (as suggeste...

Manic Street Preachers - Black Dog On My Shoulder
Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over
The Fall - Dog is Life / Jerusalem
Love & Rockets - The Dog-End of a Day Gone By
Fugazi - Foreman's Dog

Stump - Charlton Heston
Super Furry Animals - Shoot Doris Day
Pop Will East Itself - Harry Dean Stanton
Egyptian Hip Hop - Rad Pitt
Momus - Harry K-Tel

Motorhead - R.A.M.O.N.E.S.
The Gaslight Anthem - I'da Called You Woody, Joe
American Music Club - Johnny Mathis' Feet
Alvvays - Belinda Says
The Jesus and Mary Chain - The Beatles and The Eagles

Generation X - One Hundred Punks
The Skids - Of One Skin
Midnight Oil - Don't Wanna Be the One
The Hives - I'm A Wicked One
The Ramones - She's the One
Pink Floyd - One of These Days

“God sure baked a lot of fruitcake, baby” is a nice opening line

Alvvays - Many MIrrors
The Beautiful South - Mirror
Love and Rockets - Mirror People
Manic Street Preachers - Blistered Mirrors
Stereolab - Retrograde Mirror Forms

Ok so it's "Undead" and not "I'm dead" repeated a hundred times in Bela Legosi's Dead? Urghh

Crime and the City Solution - On Every Train (Grain Will Bear Grain)
Talulah Gosh - Steaming Train
Guillemots - Trains to Brazil
The Pastels - Truck Train Tractor
The Psychedelic Furs - Wrong Train

Considerably underrated: Suffer Little Children (60), The Hand That Rocks The Cradle (56), Stretch Out and Wait (53), This Night Has Opened My Eyes (52), These Things Take Time (49), Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (45), Paint a Vulgar Picture (39), Frankly Mr Shankly (34), The Headmaster Ritual (...

Kendrick Lamar - Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe
Rage Against the Machine - Killing In The Name
DJ Quik - Killer Dope
Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx - NY Is Killing Me
Little Simz - Point & Kill